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Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender
ReutersMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the country's northeast. In...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Niger, Butterfly Ballots, Rebellions, Nigeria
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Nigeria says 10 rebels killed in northeast, 65 arrested
ReutersLAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Weaponry, Butterfly Ballots, Petroleum Industry, Wars and Interventions
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Nigeria military says 10 insurgents killed, 65 arrested
ReutersLAGOS, May 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to...Tags: Rebellions, Nigeria, Petroleum Industry
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Nigeria bombs Islamists, U.S. sounds alarm
ReutersMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm civilians. Troops...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Butterfly Ballots, Rebellions, Nigeria, Armed Forces
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Nigeria launches airstrikes against Islamist militants
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Security forces in Nigeria have launched airstrikes against encampments of the Islamist militia Boko Haram as part of a major military operation in the country's northeast, military officials said Friday. The airstrikes hit...
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EDITORIAL: Nigeria's test: The military is called to counter the militants
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe state of emergency declared Tuesday by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria is a clear signal to the country's large armed forces that it is time for them to take decisive action. The declaration covers three of Nigeria's 36 states -- Adamawa,...Tags: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nigeria
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Gunmen attack police station beyond Nigeria emergency zone
ReutersKANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria's northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on a Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Religious Conflicts, Nigeria, Petroleum Industry
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Nigerian forces attack Islamist hideouts in northeast: sources
ReutersMAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigerian forces began attacking Islamist hideouts in the northeast on Thursday, security sources said, part of an offensive to wrest control of the region from increasingly bold and well-armed Boko Haram insurgents. Soldiers...Tags: Wildlife
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Nigerian forces attack Islamist hideouts in northeast-sources
ReutersMAIDUGURI, May 16 (Reuters) - Nigerian forces began attacking Islamist hideouts in the northeast on Thursday, security sources said, part of an offensive to wrest control of the region from increasingly bold and well-armed Boko Haram insurgents. Soldiers...Tags: Wildlife
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1230 GMT, May 16
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - KABUL - A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. - - - - UNITED NATIONS -...Tags: Bashar Assad, Baghdad (Iraq), Elections, Nigeria, Washington, DC
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Project teaches students about global affairs
The Spokesman-ReviewCourtney Owens, a junior at Central Valley High School, can tell you the leader of Nigeria is Goodluck Jonathan. The country's largest export is oil, and they have a 63.9 percent literacy rate. She said 40 percent of Nigerians are Christian and 50 percent...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Australia, Students, Customs and Tradition, Apple iPad
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Jets join offensive in northeast Nigeria, opinion split
ReutersYOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria sent fighter jets in support of troops fighting increasingly powerful Islamist insurgents in its northeast on Thursday, the second day of a military offensive that has divided opinion over how best to tackle the...Tags: Human Rights Watch, Rebellions, Nigeria, Armed Forces, Petroleum Industry
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